What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? – I wish I knew… Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSHow long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven’t I done time enough, haven’t I served my term? can’t I apply for a-pardon?
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
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All good art is an indiscretion.
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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
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There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be.
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Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.
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The biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven’t and hadn’t any pleasure in love, but just watched with sick envy.
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When I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse.
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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty.
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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
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I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect.
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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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